Hay Palace Fair

Greetings, Nelson Alston here. Today I want to tell you about a mighty palace built of hate. First, here is Clint Goober with the brief message from Pacific Power. Welcome once again to stories of Pacific Power Land, the presentation of Pacific Power and Light, the company that has been serving the electric needs of the region's homes, farms and industries

through more than half a century of progress and growth. Now let's join Nelson for a trip back in time in Washington's Yakima Valley. The bright Yakimov Valley Sun beams down on the town of Mabton.

It is early September in the year 1915, and the scene is one of gay colors and frantic activity. The town is getting ready for the annual fair. The carnies are setting up their rides and amusement booths.

The townspeople hustle about tending to details and last-minute arrangements for a brand new project. In the center of the fairgrounds is a large cleared space, staked out and ready for some attraction which has not yet appeared.

and then a man shops there comes the first wagon where do you want to download it all right beside those states tell the boys to be careful don't break those bales throughout the entire day wagon after wagon pulled up to the fairgrounds load after load of free piled up and the freight is always the same

great bill without the hay as the stack of bill he mounts higher and spreads wider accrue event begin assembling a sort of structure with the bills A curious onlooker, a stranger to Mabdon, asks, what's going on here anyway?

I've never seen so much hay in one place in all my life. Oh, my friend, we're building a palace, a genuine palace, on a Mabdon's biggest crop, crime alfalfa hay. Farmers here about to save their best alfalfal season, so we can build the biggest hay palace in the world.